Anastasios Tsamados

Admiral

Anastasios Tsamados
A portrait of Anastasios Tsamados
by Dionysios Tsokos
Native name
Αναστάσιος Τσαμαδός
Born1774
Hydra, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died1825
Sphacteria, First Hellenic Republic
Allegiance First Hellenic Republic
Branch Hellenic Navy
RankAdmiral (Posthumous)
CommandsAris
Battles / warsGreek War of Independence

Anastasios Tsamados (Greek: Αναστάσιος Τσαμαδός; 1772 or 1774 – 1825) was a Greek admiral of the Greek War of Independence. He was the famous captain of the brig Aris and an admiral who led a naval squadron under Andreas Miaoulis. Anastasios Tsamados was the first to rush to the Greek island of Chios and attack the naval warships of the Kapudan Pasha during the massacre of Chios. He also fought in the naval battle of Patras (1822) and died heroically during the famous Battle of Sphacteria.